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Ferrari's Fernando Alonso: Vettel's four titles 'will be bad news'

July 15, 2014

Fernando Alonso gave an interview in 2013 saying that Sebastian Vettel's four F1 titles could be bad news if the driver fails to win without a dominant car. Those words seem to be coming true as Vettel continues to struggle this season. Photo by LAT PHOTOGRAPHIC

In video from 2013, Ferrari driver sounds prophetic

Sebastian Vettel won four Formula One titles before he turned 27 years old. But last year, when interviewed, fellow driver Fernando Alonso said he wasn’t impressed yet.

When asked if he put Vettel in the same category as F1 legends Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, Alonso was quick to answer.

“Time will tell us,” Alonso said. “[Vettel] will have a car like the [rest of the field]; if he wins, he will be one of the legends in Formula One. When one day he has a car like the others and he’s fourth, fifth, seventh? These four titles will be bad news for him because people will take his four titles in even a worse manner than what they are doing now. There are interesting times for Sebastian coming.”

Alonso’s words seem almost prophetic in 2014, as Vettel seems to find himself without the most dominant car in the field. After winning 13 races last season, Vettel has yet to win a race or a pole in 2014 and is currently sixth in the standings, 95 points behind leader Nico Rosberg.